With 430 cases added in a week, K East ward (Andheri) is set to cross the 8,000 mark and a majority of the administrative wards in Mumbai have now have at least 5,000 cases each. As the city reported a little over 1,000 fresh cases on Sunday, four wards including K East, G North, R Central and R South currently have over 950 cases each while Mumbai has nearly 18,000 active cases.

Like in other parts of the city, civic officials said that the hotspots in K East ward are located in residential areas and there are few cases emerging from slum areas.